Category: Blog
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The AI Shift: Are Entry-Level Jobs Under Pressure?
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The rise of generative AI has felt like an earthquake rippling through our economy. From boardrooms to coffee shops, everyone’s asking the same question: What does this mean for our jobs? A groundbreaking paper from Stanford University, “Canaries in the Coal Mine?” offers some of the most compelling (and unsettling) answers yet. Drawing on a goldmine of…
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When AI Takes Your Order: Fast‑Food’s AI Awakening and Lessons for Public‑Facing Chatbots
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A Bold Leap into AI and a Quick Course Correction The promise of artificial intelligence transforming the fast-food industry seemed inevitable. Voice-powered ordering systems would streamline operations, reduce labor costs, and provide consistent customer experiences. Taco Bell’s parent company, Yum! Brands, embarked on a major initiative to modernize its drive-thru experience using voice AI, with…
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AI vs Complex Code: Why Software Engineers Still Matter in 2025
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As developers increasingly turn to AI for coding assistance, my recent experience building a chart management tool revealed both the remarkable capabilities and critical limitations of today’s frontier AI models. What started as a seemingly straightforward project became an illuminating case study in AI-human collaboration, one that aligns closely with recent academic research highlighting the…
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A Data-Driven Look at AI’s Growing Environmental Footprint
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The conversation around Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving from pure capability to a necessary discussion on sustainability. We know the training of massive models is energy-intensive, but the real environmental impact is accruing silently, millions of times a second, in a phase called AI inference, every time a model generates text, an image, or an answer. In…